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De Blasio’s nightmare: New York’s mayor has lost the police — and maybe much more than that.
The Politico ^ | December 22, 2014 | Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush

Posted on 12/22/2014 7:48:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Bill de Blasio, like his progressive political idol Barack Obama, is finding out that you can’t do the New Politics if you don’t pay attention to the old politics.

In Obama’s case, it was a failure to recognize the threat posed to him by Republicans who didn’t buy into his calls for a post-partisan partnership with Congress. For New York’s ambitious liberal mayor, it was an inability to keep long-simmering tensions with the city’s traditionally powerful police department from boiling over in the last few days.

Just over a year after sailing into office with 72 percent of the vote on a message of transformational change, de Blasio found his mayoralty subsumed by a torrent of anger, unleashed by the murder of two police officers in Brooklyn Saturday by a troubled gunman who said he was killing “pigs” to avenge the deaths of two men by cops in Staten Island and Ferguson, Missouri. By Monday, de Blasio was lashing out at the press corps that covers him, trying to paper over public divisions with his own police commissioner and coping with what friends described as the emotional blow of facing public rejection by many in the nation’s biggest police force. “He’s pretty badly shaken” by the murders, one told us....

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: billdeblasio; deblasio; ericgarner; ferguson; garner; michaelbrown; newyork; nypd; police
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Al’s been sort of quiet today as well.


21 posted on 12/22/2014 8:10:05 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You know what though, vet...

I do not give a damn shit what Bill de Blasio has lost.

Two men lost their lives.

A young man lost his dad at Christmas.

Wives lost their husbands.

America lost two heroes.

To Hell with Bill de Blasio and every single other stinking liar politician and race pimp that has purposely inflamed people in this country to behave this way with their lies.

Evil men such as these are leading this country straight into Hell as fast as they can, because burning her down is their goal, and what better place to burn someting than in Hell.

We must all turn our backs on men such as these forever, or they will tear us apart.


22 posted on 12/22/2014 8:10:14 PM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Sasparilla

And sadly it’s going just as planned.


23 posted on 12/22/2014 8:10:46 PM PST by snuffy smiff (Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.)
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To: mojo114

Now if Obama came to NYC with his motorcade he could disrupt the protesters gathering, bigtime. But alas, its NYC in winter and not Honolulu. Bammy dont do cold vacays for nobody.


24 posted on 12/22/2014 8:12:32 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyrannye dontchyaknow.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"But the action that turned off cops most of all was his defense of City Hall staffer Rachel Noerdlinger, a longtime Sharpton aide whose son and boyfriend posted anti-police messages on their Facebook accounts."

Son and boyfriend?? - Two different people or one person?

Someone needs an editor

25 posted on 12/22/2014 8:14:35 PM PST by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: Cruz_West_Paul2016

why did he change his name, and what did he change it from..?


26 posted on 12/22/2014 8:14:57 PM PST by gaijin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"BLOODY BILL" de Blasio; pollutes the
airwaves again, in his war against America.

27 posted on 12/22/2014 8:15:49 PM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies . d8^)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Billy needs to realize that just because you can play with fire, doesn’t mean you can never lose control of fire.


28 posted on 12/22/2014 8:16:18 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Nervous Tick

Amen Bro, amen.


29 posted on 12/22/2014 8:22:58 PM PST by doc1019
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Typical liberal “Don’t blame me, I’m the victim.” excuse.

Warren Wilhelm is blaming the press “for dividing us.” Not his fault at all.


30 posted on 12/22/2014 8:24:29 PM PST by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And you wake up with fleas.

31 posted on 12/22/2014 8:25:36 PM PST by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

“In Obama’s case, it was a failure to recognize the threat posed to him by Republicans who didn’t buy into his calls for a post-partisan partnership with Congress.”

Oh! So they are now calling, “Let’s do it my way!” a call for a post-partisan partnership. Where do the come up with these distortions of reality.


32 posted on 12/22/2014 8:25:50 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; stephenjohnbanker; Gilbo_3; Impy; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; ...
RE:”De Blasio’s nightmare: New York’s mayor has lost the police — and maybe much more than that.”

Another Dinkins??

33 posted on 12/22/2014 8:27:03 PM PST by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: tflabo

Nice limerick. Too much for an haiku though.


34 posted on 12/22/2014 8:28:45 PM PST by Resettozero
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To: Cruz_West_Paul2016

Is the NY Post still calling him Kaiser Wilhelm?


35 posted on 12/22/2014 8:29:49 PM PST by Huntress ("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
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To: God luvs America

http://nypost.com/2014/09/25/top-adviser-to-de-blasio-dates-a-cop-bashing-killer/


36 posted on 12/22/2014 8:34:49 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: Cruz_West_Paul2016
"Just over a year after sailing into office with 72 percent of the vote..."

Please, enough with The Politico's lies... Warren Wilhelm Jr. won with 18% of "the vote".

37 posted on 12/22/2014 8:35:03 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bump


38 posted on 12/22/2014 8:36:47 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s mayor’s race was a mess, thanks to Weiner.

this commie, police hating idiot needs to resign and a law and order mayor must be elected.

Are NYer’s dumb or what?


39 posted on 12/22/2014 8:38:20 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Funny thing is, I remember him telling republicans to get on the back of the bus and to go along for the ride. Insulting, racially charged, deeply dividing...

But no one remembers.


40 posted on 12/22/2014 8:40:09 PM PST by clyde260 (Public Enemy #1: Network News!)
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